Visual Studio Debugging Feature - Tracepoints

published 5 days, 11 hours ago, submitted by Rickasaurus 6 days, 21 hours ago

mark-dot-net.blogspot.com — A tracepoint is simply a breakpoint that will emit a debug trace statement when it is reached. It can emit things like the current function name, stack trace, or the contents of a variable. What's really cool is that you don't have to actually stop execution. This allows you to quickly add debugging statements without the need to check out your code or remember to take the Debug.WriteLine statements out afterwards. read more...

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Developing Facebook applications in C# with ASP.NET

stevetrefethen.com — write a Facebook application using ASP.NET and C#. read more...

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Dear Asp.Net Developers: Stop Making Our Technology Look Bad

keithelder.net — Have you ever tried to use one browser and one browser only? This article outlines how impossible it can be even in 2008 to do. There are countless public facing Asp.Net web sites that require Internet Explorer. The perception and impact this has on the non Asp.Net community is something developers need to think about. It is an interesting read that provides a lot of insight into the problem and some ways to fix it. read more...

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LINQ to SQL - Am I Hitting The Database?

published 5 months, 1 day ago, submitted by wisemx 5 months, 3 days ago

singingeels.com — Like most other developers who have been using LINQ for a while (and in this particular case, LINQ to SQL) - I've unknowingly made a few 'bad queries' that performed great at first, but eventually made some pages crawl. This post isn't necessarily about performance, but if you don't know how to answer that question ("am I hitting the database"), then you'll likely find yourself in a world of problems down the road when you're using LINQ to SQL. read more...

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13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness

littletutorials.com — UML lost the programmers. There is no doubt about it… in my mind. And when a software design technology loses the programmers it fades away no matter what the academia thinks. This happened because UML was pushed in a direction that most code writers don’t like: it started to look a lot like bureaucratic paper work. read more...

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My Favorite .NET Link Blogs

nayyeri.net — Link blogs are one of the common types of blogs that are actually a list of links to other resources in a specific field. At first glance, it seems easy to collect some links and present them in a blog post and somehow this statement is right but there are some people who don’t take it easy and put a good effort to present great link blogs. read more...

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Creating full-blown WPF applications within minutes using Vidyano

published 5 months, 19 days ago, submitted by Setsuko 5 months, 24 days ago

vidyano.com — Vidyano is a new product that allows you to literally create WPF applications, optionally running on top of Windows Workflow, within minutes. The July 2008 CTP, as well as a quickstart tutorial, just became available as public downloads. The screencast is a quick overview on some of Vidyano's initial features, it also shows you how to apply a workflow state machine as an engine behind a pagecontroller. More info and tutorials will become available in the upcoming days/weeks. read more...

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55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

published 6 months, 2 days ago, submitted by drugarce 6 months, 4 days ago

smashingmagazine.com — A lot of freebie icons. Another great article from Smashing Magazine read more...

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